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As well as representing premier sports men and women in diverse activities such as golf, soccer, American Football, ice skating and hockey, baseball and basketball, IMG is also the world’s largest independent source of televised sports programming through its television production company Trans World International (TWI); the world’s largest independent personality, trademark and event licensing company and the leading producer of internationally renowned classical music artists and events. Clients of the company include Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie and Ian Woosnam in Golf; Tennis stars Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, Tim Henman and Andre Agassi; Michael Schumaker and David Coulthard in Formula One Racing as well as institutional clients such as the Nobel Foundation, Oxford University and the World Economic Forum. | |
In addition to European Golf Design, there are two other companies owned jointly by the PGA European Tour and IMG. The first of these, PGA European Tour Productions, supplies television coverage of all PGA European Tour events to terrestrial, cable and satellite television systems globally. PGA European Tour Courses Limited was established for the purpose of providing golf developments in which both the PGA European Tour and IMG have an equity position with the management skills directly related to the successfull development of golf facilities. To date, six projects are managed in this way, with other developments due to join the brand in the near future. |
TELEVISION CLIENTS
IMG's television division, Trans World International (TWI), consistently creates innovative approaches and technically superior productions for networks and sports associations, while maintaining an unrivaled international distribution network. Last year TWI provided sports programming to broadcasters in 118 countries. TWI represents and negotiates the television rights for dozens of preeminent sporting events and organizations, including:  Visit the TransWorld Sport Web Site.. see it every Saturay C4 8am |
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1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games
TWI acted as television advisor and consultant to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games, the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games, the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympic Games and the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games. It has been retained in a similar role for the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games this year and the Nagano Winter Olympic Games in 1998. TWI also recently completed production of The Olympic Century - three television specials sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee that celebrate the first 100 years of the modern Olympic movement. The Whitbread Round The World Race TWI coordinates the international production and distribution of The Whitbread Round The World Race. The 1997-98 race will start from Southampton in September 1997. The fleet is expected to return to Southampton in May 1998. There will be nine legs visiting seven countries. This is the first time the event has staged nine legs and the first time that the ports of Baltimore/Annapolis, in the USA, Sao Sebastiao in Brazil and La Rochelle, in France, have been visited. It is also the first time since the 1985-86 race that South Africa has hosted a stopover port. The approximate total mileage for the circumnavigation is 31,600 nautical miles. TWI successfully negotiated a position for the Orange Bowl in the new college football alliance championship rotation. In an effort to have the best college teams play head-to head in premiere Bowl match-ups, the major college football conferences selected only three Bowls to be part of the rotation. The Orange Bowl joins the Sugar Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl in this new six-year plan. TWI also successfully renegotiated a six-year extension of FedEx as the Orange Bowl's title sponsor. The Kiwi's won the Cup. But now Paul Cayard and St. Francis Yacht Club are mounting a fierce challenge to recapture the America's Cup for America. Catch up on all the race results. |
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TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS
TWI is the largest independent producer of sports programmes in the world. In 1994 TWI produced over 1,200 hours of original programmes. Filming in over 100 different countries, TWI camera crews have collected archival material on 243 different sports and created one of the most comprehensive sports-video libraries in the world. |
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LICENSING CLIENTS
In addition to IMG's creation of lucrative endorsement contracts for its celebrity clients, IMG is the largest independent personality, trademark and event licensing company in the world. IMG Licensing develops and exclusively manages comprehensive licensing programs for sports governing and sanctioning bodies, television properties, corporate and institutional logos and trademarks. |
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